Reconviction rates from those given community sentences are 14% lower than those released from custody.

The draft resolutions to be discussed today seem largely prompted by the recent reconviction of 21 Egyptian men for 'debauchery'.

To increase the number of women successfully completing Orders and Licences and reduce the reconviction rate of female offenders.

Reconviction figures for prisoners released in 1985 suggest that 55 per cent of men and 34 per cent of women are reconvicted within 2 years.

However, Phillpotts and Lancucki's (1979) authoritative study for the Home Office on reconviction rates offers a basis for provisional optimism.

Offenders who were reconvicted within the follow-up period were likely to have their first reconviction fairly soon after sentence (or, for those given custodial sentences, after discharge).

The reconviction of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev is a sign that the rule of law in Russia remains in the era of the gulags.

Positive test results and favourable feedback might be sufficient evaluation criteria outside of the Criminal Justice System but reconviction rates for probation practice must remain the acid test.

But even then research into the old approved schools showed children who experienced them had a reconviction rate 49 per cent higher than would otherwise have been expected from their characteristics and records.

This involved the collection and analysis of five different types of information: an alcohol knowledge test, a drink profile questionnaire, a drink diary, a consumer questionnaire and reconviction rate statistics.

Of the 50 released over the past 18 months, only nine have reoffended or been recalled to prison, representing a reconviction rate of 18%, compared with a prison average of 48% after one year.

"We are systematically undoing those things that have led to lower prison populations, lower recidivism rates, lower absconder rates and lower reconviction rates," said Corrections Secretary Roger Werholtz.

Labour's Joanne McCartney said officials had warned that there were a number of caveats around the low figure, saying it was "based on anecdotal information and does not represent a reconviction rate, and should not be used publicly".

Only Illinois and New York, besides Texas, have had more convictions overturned by genetic testing than Dallas County, a fact attributable in part to evidence retained to assure reconviction in the event of a successful appeal.

Three important studies in the Social Work Research Centre were completed during the year: on the community care for long-term psychiatric patients, on reconviction following community service and on the costs and quality of residential care for elderly people.

In a review of reconviction rates, for example, a Home Office report concluded: 'Those given probation orders were therefore less likely to be reconvicted within two years of being given probation than those released from custody'(Home Office, 1986, p. 5).

This approach would leave the rule that the Court defends intact in precisely those cases where it does the most good and the least harm: cases in which the responsible officials are likely to be accountable for forcing the State to again prove its case, and in which retrial and reconviction are plausible possibilities".

Turning to the second issue regarding the constitutional limits of increased sentences upon reconviction, the Court found that neither the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment nor the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment precludes a trial judge from increasing a sentence upon reconviction.